Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Ranger]

Hello All,
I live up in the far north in Northumberland and have had various "Classic" cars in the last 10 years: a MK11 Escort 1.6 Ghia, an Austin FX4 taxi, a Chevette saloon, an 9000 mile MKIV Escort, a 205 GTI, I seem to get them sort them out and sell them on although I kept the MK11 for 10 years.

I now have a kit car based upon a couple of MK11 escorts, a saloon and an estate, after searching for some information upon the web I found this site and thought I'd try to get some from a non rally based site.

My kit car has a timken rear axle fitted and before I go off sourcing a 3.54:1 diff can anybody advise me how I can find out what is currently fitted? I can't see anything obvious but as I don't know what I'm looking for...

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Cheers
Craig

[peter scott]

Hi Ranger,

Welcome to the forum. How about just jacking up one wheel and puting a chalk mark on the tyre. Mark the prop shaft and rotate it for quite a few turns whilst counting and have someone else counting the wheel turns?

The accuracy of this will improve with the more turns you can be bothered counting for. Clearly it would be nice to stop when both wheel and prop shaft have completed exact, non-fractional numbers of turns although this might take a fair bit of turning. Then just divide the prop turns by the wheel turns. (..and of course divide the result by 2 since the other wheel is stationary. Sorry if this is obvious.)

HTH

Peter
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